High Performance Computing for Oil and Gas Industry

2009 SEG Post-convention workshop, Thursday, Oct 29, 2009

Organizers: Masoud Nikravesh, Dimitri Bevc, Cynthia Xue, and Scott Morton
E-mail contact: Masoud Nikravesh <Nikravesh@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Through the support of the Research Committee

Society of Exploration Geophysicists
International Exposition and Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting
George R. Brown Convention Center.
Houston, Texas USA • 25–30 October 2009

Time: 1:30–5:30 p.m.
Room: 320 BC

Masoud Nikravesh(1), Dimitri Bevc(2) and Cynthia Xue(3) , Scott Morton(4)
(1) CITRIS- University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
(2)Fusion Petroleum Technologies Inc., (3) Shell , (4)Hess Corporation

The compute intensive imaging paradigms such as reverse time migration, iterative and interactive model building, and waveform inversion make High Performance Computing (HPC) more vital than ever to the Oil and Gas Industry mission.  In addition to imaging, HPC is critical for everything from timely modeling and simulation of large-scale physical systems once thought to be impossible, to processing, analysis and interpretation and visualization of huge seismic data volumes. This workshop focuses on recent advances in HPC as well as challenges due to the end of Moore’s Law and its impact on the Oil and Gas Industry. In this workshop, the following subjects will be addressed: For more details see attachment.